Patrick Ivuti

Patrick Mukutu Ivuti (born June 30, 1978) is a Kenyan long distance athlete, who currently resides in Nairobi, Kenya. He also competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics and finished fourth in the 10,000 metres. He was a two-time winner of the Almond Blossom Cross Country during this period.

Ivuti made his debut over the marathon distance at the 2005 Chicago Marathon. He has broken the hour mark several times since running a time of 59:31 in Lisbon 2000. He set his new half marathon personal record of 59:27 at the Rotterdam Half Marathon on September 9, 2007.

He won the Chicago Marathon held on October 7, 2007, with a time of 2:11:11 hours. The race was the closest Chicago Marathon ever and a photo finish culmination of a shoulder to shoulder final 300 meter stretch run with Jaouad Gharib down Columbus Drive on a day of record-setting temperatures.

He could not defend Chicago marathon title in 2008 due to injury. In December 2008 Ivuti won the Honolulu Marathon. In May 2009 he won the Prague Marathon and set a new race record. He also repeated the Honolulu Marathon victory. He had a disappointing run in Prague in 2010, coming nineteenth, but he rebounded at the 2011 Vienna City Marathon by recording his third career sub-2:10 time to take second place behind John Kiprotich. He returned to Honolulu but was beaten to the title by Nicholas Chelimo by a margin of three seconds.

Ivuti is married and his wife Marietta is sister of Jimmy Muindi, also a Kenyan marathon runner.

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